Actors Quotes · Page 101

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

— Anne Archer

As an artist I just think comedic actors are really underrated.

— Rose Byrne

You reminded me of a quote that my acting teacher Stella Adler wrote in her book ['The Art of Acting'], which I…

— Mark Ruffalo

Just listening to Pac, ain't gon' make it stop A rebel in your thoughts, ain't gon' make it halt If you don't…

— Lupe Fiasco

Most scripts are written to be green lit. They're not written to be acted. And a lot of writers with the greatest…

— Laura Linney

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they…

— Lars von Trier

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.

— Simone Elkeles

The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Sometimes some of the best moments are contributed by the actors being creative, with their own improvisations.

— Woody Allen

There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.

— Gary Busey

We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother,…

— Shirley Temple

After my last divorce, I said I was absolutely going to marry somebody in another field, an aid worker or something. Then…

— Angelina Jolie

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell…

— Clarke Peters

As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.

— Xavier Dolan

I think actors who take things too far are funny.

— Dean Norris

I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.

— Greta Garbo

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like…

— Peter Billingsley

Auditioning is extremely bizarre. Just being an actor is extremely bizarre, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

— Adelaide Kane

As an actor, you don't want to ever get too comfortable where you're like, "I know this character," and you don't do…

— Shanola Hampton

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

— Corey Feldman

I had parents who were working actors, who did really well in their careers, but it was a living. So it was…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

As an audience member and as an actor I much prefer to find ambiguity.

— Michael Fassbender

The offers were, like, a lot of money - maybe not for other actors, but definitely for me. But I don't want…

— Joaquin Phoenix

Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't…

— Greg Kinnear

My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in…

— Rufus Sewell

Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very…

— Billy Boyd

I think all actors want to change. When you do something many times, over and over, you want to do something fresh.…

— Jet Li

For me as an actor, it's really fun to play someone who's not human.

— Mallory Jansen

I think you get the most honest performances when an actor shows up to set with their lines memorized. That's a very…

— Shailene Woodley

The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.

— Viggo Mortensen

Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in…

— M. Night Shyamalan

As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor.…

— Eric Balfour

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.

— Scott Speedman

Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job.

— Dermot Mulroney

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung -…

— Katherine Heigl

The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I'm sure I cause just as much consternation for editors as any other actor, it definitely makes me feel more comfortable understanding…

— Ed Helms

The actor's tense, he's being taped and things are not falling naturally. That's what I hate about Boadway. I feel like I'm…

— Michael Jackson

But George Lucas is carrying about Black actors, about Black men, about Black history, which really incorporates and tells all of history.…

— Terrence Howard

That's an amazing gift as an actor - to be able to say I have an audience in so many countries in…

— Elisabeth Harnois